In the latest "Proof of Concept," Grant Schneider, senior director of cybersecurity services at the law firm Venable, and Ari Redbord, head of legal and government affairs at TRM Labs, join editors at Information Security Media Group to discuss trending cybersecurity issues.
As Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues, what will happen next remains unclear. Accordingly, cybersecurity experts are again calling on organizations globally to focus on what they can control, including their cybersecurity defenses and business resiliency preparedness.
The EU confirmed that it will activate its elite cybersecurity team to assist Ukrainians if Russian cyberattacks occur. The news follows rapid escalation in the Russia-Ukraine border conflict, where Russia has amassed over 100,000 troops and is reportedly considering full-scale invasion.
On this week's "Sound Off," attorney Lisa Sotto demonstrates how Colonial Pipeline did "a lot right" in its response to the DarkSide ransomware attack that led the firm to shut down operations for nearly a week last May. She shares best practices for enterprises to improve incident response plans.
In 2021, there was a spike in cybercrime, and the focus changed for threat actors from several countries, particularly Russia and China. Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike provides an overview of the changes, analyzes the takedown of Russian threat actor REvil and adds to its list of adversaries.
An early eBook from the CyberTheory Institute library, co-authored by founder, Steve King, and Cliff Kittle, a frequent contributor to our corpus of thought leadership, this time about Zero Trust and its influence from the principles of Maneuver Warfare.
Based upon the rapid increase in malware variants designed to...
CISA, FBI and NSA issued a joint advisory on Wednesday pointing to Russian state-sponsored activity against defense contractors. Officials say they have tracked threat actors compromising cleared defense contractors supporting several branches of the U.S. military and the intelligence community.
By almost every measure, ransomware continues to get worse, not least in the average amount criminals receive when a victim chooses to pay a ransom. So say new reports assessing the volume and severity of ransomware attacks, the flow of cryptocurrency, attackers' target selection and more.
In case anyone doubts that Russia is the epicenter of ransomware operations, follow the money, as Chainalysis finds that "roughly 74% of ransomware revenue in 2021 - over $400 million worth of cryptocurrency - went to strains we can say are highly likely to be affiliated with Russia in some way."
In the latest weekly update, four editors at Information Security Media Group discuss important cybersecurity issues, including how the BlackMatter ransomware group has rebranded itself yet again, how the DOJ confiscated stolen Bitcoin worth more than $4 billion and takeaways from a U.S. Senate hearing on open-source...
Four ISMG editors discuss important cybersecurity issues, including misconceptions around Zero Trust implementation, lessons learned from the crippling NotPetya malware attack of 2017 that nearly sank logistics giant Maersk and how a Russian cyberwar in Ukraine could move beyond its borders.
The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report features an analysis of how Russia's escalation in Ukraine is raising cyber defense alarms. It also describes how a Dark Overlord collaborator received a three-year prison sentence and shares tips for Zero Trust implementation.
The security world continues its fight against potential widespread exploitation of the critical remote code execution vulnerability - tracked as CVE-2021-44229 - in Apache's Log4j software library, versions 2.0-beta9 to 2.14.1, known as "Log4Shell" and "Logjam." This is a digest of ISMG's updates.
We thought it was bad enough when traditional ransomware started to steal data in its second generation of evolution, now dubbed "double extortion". The third stage of ransomware is beginning to happen now and will make us wish for the good, old days of Ransomware 2.0.
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In 2022, CISOs need to build an adaptive and cyber-resilient enterprise through hyperautomation in order to implement any kind of cybersecurity controls, says Vishal Salvi, CISO and head of the cybersecurity practice at Infosys.
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